Mario Kart 8: Easily my favorite (and I think best) game on the console. In my opinion the greatest karting game ever made (including DKR, suckas) and I've owned most of them. It's so good I bought it once, beat it, had it stolen from me and bought it again. $120 and well worth the price. Plus they put out so much DLC for another $20 you get 6 playable characters, a few variants, and four completely new cups (that's 16 total tracks). I will literally not stop playing this game until Mario Kart 10 comes out (because 9 will be a handheld, like they always do).

Great game, 100% agreed. My only complaint on it is that once you have the DLC cups, you can no longer play all tracks at once in random shuffle in VS Mode. Only up to 32. Not really a fan of 200cc either. Love it otherwise.

200cc was a gimmick that I got tired of very quickly. It's like 8-man brawl in Smash Bros. It's fun to play with a group of friends just because it's ridiculous and nobody is taking it seriously. But if I'm going to play MK8 solo or even with one friend (the best way to play, because the game cuts the frame-rate in half if more than two people are playing) I just don't have fun on 200cc. I need to play it more because I've 100%'d the game otherwise. That's the last thing on the list and I'm dreading it with a passion, because I'm worried it might actually make me not want to play the game.

I see your point. I think I consider it a gimmick because of the way it was presented, and the way that it is used by (at least what I've seen) the majority of people who play it.

It doesn't feel like the natural progression to the next speed, like 100 to 150 does. It speeds the game up to a point where you can't play it normally; you have to do things you never really picked up in your entire experience playing Mario Kart game, just to get through some of it in a good place. Crazy amounts of breaking. Not using speed items. lol

It's not BAD. I'm not knocking them for putting it in. More FREE content is always good, as somebody is gonna like it. I'm sure it has its place, much like 8-man smash does in Smash Bros, but I'm not a huge fan of it. I think it's a party mini-game to laugh at how terrible everyone is, and then go back to playing the real Mario Kart experience.